- Skyreach (with a partner) or Spellscar in Craglorn

- Dolmens

- Public Dungeons (added bonus is they are generous with skill points and skyshards)

- Imperial City

- Any of the above with crafted Training gear.

- Any of the above with stacked XP scrolls/ambrosia (be sure to swap out fully leveled skills regularly).

Quests are really not that good for XP gain ... unless you've done them before or are OK with skipping the entire dialogue (not recommended due to the good storylines ESO has).

All my alts load up a bunch of AOE spells and run the Alik’r dolmens. It’s a pretty fast grind if you can get maximum kill credit.


It will, however, be less effective now that Rapids are gated behind extensive PvP content. You run the risk of arriving at the dolmen when most stuff has already been killed when you are slow.

I just typed this out on another thread with basically the same question. I will copy/paste. I have power leveled a toon about a dozen times at this point. I can only handle the main quest so many times. haha

"I have 18 Level 50 toons, 3 of each class, for whatever that is worth.

Until recently (It was deconed in the great spring cleaning event of 2020), I had a full set of Magic and Stamina training gear. Magic gear was Julianos and Magnus (lighting/fire staffs), Stam was Hundings and Night mothers (DW/Bow). It was at level 4, 10, 20, 30, 40. All my training gear is 5/1/1 to ensure I am leveling all my armor lines.

Step one on making a new character (skip tutorial and start at Lvl3) was to simply start porting to all the major capital cities from my guild friends list. This gets you to level 4 pretty fast. I then max out the bag space, start feeding my horse, and grab the mages/fighters guild lines. I throw on the level 4 gear and usually go to dolmens until about level 10. Some classes can go straight to grinding with their early skills, but this assures that you have a few skills on your bars* just by tagging along at some dolmens. I also grab the recovery mundus at this point for my main attribute, and make sure I have a stack of trash pots, XP scrolls/potions, and some regen food (witchmothers for example). Oh yeah, and spend your CP (I always forgot that part for a few levels).

*sidenote on Bars: I ALWAYS keep one class skill from each line on my front bar to ensure they all level. I also typically keep a skill for the obvious back bar weapon line (cant use but does gain weaponline XP) and one skill for another weapon (2H, Resto, S+B) etc. I might be a little flexible until I unlock bar swapping, but I try to be strict about this. Once a skill hits morph, I move to the next in line. My goal is to have all class skills and at least 2 weapons lines leveled to morph and as close to 50 as possible by the time I hit 50.

At level 10, I grab rapids in Cyro (RIP), and put on my level 10 gear.

I then go to one of a handful of zombie grinds (zombie's level fighters guild). I can usually get to about 30 in a few hours. Skyreach is also useful if you have a buddy, but I don't pay for carries. Early in the grinding, i am sure to quickly equip a trash weapon I pick up from all the lines and kill something, this unlocks them so I can start leveling those lines passively.

Once I hit 30, I respec my skills typically and quickly power level alchemy and provisioning. Takes maybe 15 minutes if you know what you are doing. I do it then because sometimes you can have a skill point crunch about this point and need to respec anyway if you really are unlocking everything to ensure you level all class lines and applicable weapon lines. I try to spend passives in racial, light/medium armor, and destro/DW, depending on whether its magic or stam. I will spend in obvious class passives, but you really dont need to. Once I power level those two lines, I respec again, and go back to grinding.

I will typically start to queue for random normals at this point (the pool is pretty small) while I grind. If the queue pops, I do the dungeon, because it gives a skill point and some good XP, especially the first of the day. By level 30, you have enough skills to form a basic dungeon build. I will sometimes jump into normal VMA if I am bored, but usually not. It's honestly not super efficient, but it is better than a really crowded grind spot.

I swap gear again at 40, and continue to grind until I hit 50. At 50, I always go straight to VMA, mostly for the title, but also to get a feel for the class.

For most magic classes, all I use to grind are 2 ground dots (blockade and one from the class) and lighting heavy attacks. For stamina, it's mostly hail and Steel Tornado. I will of course backbar good class utility skills like Crit Surge, repentence, Siphoning strikes, just to name a few (really anything that helps with passive heals, damage, or resources). I will certainly also use good grind skills like Sap essence or Sweeps, depending on class.

During double XP, you can have a pretty well rounded toon in about 5-6 hours with this method. Most class/weapon lines should be at 50 or really close, and all your useful skills should be at least at morph. You will be light on skill points if you havent spent some time getting shards (or buy them), but you should have enough for either a basic build or to park the toon for crafting writs. On a stam toon, i would normally jump into cyro at that point to get vigor/Caltrops.

I then typically start the undaunted grind in vet dungeons, and decide what guild skill lines I also need. If you are going to buy any, psijic and mages are the obvious two as they are a nightmare."